{"id":12683,"date":"2025-12-23T11:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-joins-asean-in-push-for-thailand-cambodia-truce-as-daily-clashes-continue\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T11:02:43","slug":"china-joins-asean-in-push-for-thailand-cambodia-truce-as-daily-clashes-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-joins-asean-in-push-for-thailand-cambodia-truce-as-daily-clashes-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"China joins Asean in push for Thailand-Cambodia truce as daily clashes continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>BEIJING, Dec 23 &mdash; The top priority for Thailand and Cambodia is to agree to &#8203;a ceasefire and stop fighting as soon as &zwnj;possible resume dialogue, and resolve their border disputes peacefully, a special Chinese envoy to the region said.<\/p>\n<p>For three weeks, &zwj;Thailand and Cambodia have engaged in daily exchanges of rockets and &zwnj;artillery along their 817 km land border, after a truce first brokered by Malaysia as Asean chair and US President Donald Trump collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>China has since joined the &zwj;top diplomats of the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations in urging both countries to exercise restraint and take steps to halt fighting.<\/p>\n<p>China supports Asean&rsquo;s mediation efforts and is willing to once again create conditions and provide a platform for dialogue and negotiations between the two sides, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday, citing its Special Envoy for Asian Affairs Deng Xijun.<\/p>\n<p>Deng recently travelled to the two countries, meeting with their respective prime &zwj;ministers and other &zwj;senior government officials, as part of China&rsquo;s shuttle diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to hold a meeting on Wednesday of defence officials aimed &#8203;at resuming the ceasefire, a move welcomed by Asean.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>China, which calls itself a &ldquo;friend&rdquo; and &ldquo;close neighbour&rdquo; to both Cambodia and Thailand, has been seeking to facilitate mediation. It says it has been promoting a resolution to the conflict &ldquo;in its own way&rdquo;, without referring to the Trump ceasefire deal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump claimed &zwnj;that the Thai-Cambodian conflict was one of the eight wars that he had stopped around the world, even as the fighting broke &zwj;out again.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In a region marked by complex historical sensitivities, few actors can &zwnj;claim to &zwj;have the trust and willingness necessary to sustain mediation efforts as China, whose &zwj;balanced and constructive approach provides a stable impetus for de-escalation of the tensions, as &zwj;it did in helping broker reconciliation between Iran &#8288;and Saudi Arabia last &zwj;year,&rdquo; state-run China Daily wrote in an editorial on Monday. &mdash; Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>China joins Asean in push for Thailand-Cambodia truce as daily clashes continue<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Dec 23 &mdash; The top priority for Thailand and Cambodia is to agree to &#8203;a ceasefire and stop fighting as soon as &zwnj;possible resume dialogue, and resolve their border disputes peacefully, a special Chinese envoy to the region said. For three weeks, &zwj;Thailand and Cambodia have engaged in daily exchanges of rockets and &zwnj;artillery&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/china-joins-asean-in-push-for-thailand-cambodia-truce-as-daily-clashes-continue\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;China joins Asean in push for Thailand-Cambodia truce as daily clashes continue&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}